Inhalt: FINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2018 â??Like Huckleberry Finn written by Cormac McCarthy.â?? -- Sunday Times HÃ¥kan Söderström is a man who has become a legend. Giant in size, rumoured to be bloodthirsty and fearless, he is known simply as â??the Hawkâ??. But behind this myth is a tale of loss and survival. As a young man HÃ¥kan is sent from Gothenburg with his brother Linus to seek their fortunes in New York. In the chaos of the port, he is separated from Linus and finds himself instead on a ship bound for California. He speaks no English and has no money but determined to find his brother, HÃ¥kan sets out on a journey east. As he travels on foot he moves against the tide of history, experiencing the Gold Rush and its effects, encountering capitalists and colonialists, explorers and early scientists, and witnessing the formation of America and the betrayal of its dream. In the Distance is a novel about radical foreignness â?" about being lost in a country that does not yet exist. As HÃ¥kan confronts desert and mountains, he is thrown between the threat of violence and devastating loneliness, all the while keeping the image of his brother, and the hope of companionship, in the distance. â??Singular and deeply affectingâ?¦ In the Distance is a brutal, sad, tender coming-of-age story, set in a historical past that feels both familiar and at the same time like nothing weâ??ve ever encountered before.â?? -- Guardian â??Richly drawn and something like Huckleberry Finn written by Cormac McCarthy: an adventure story as well as a meditation on the meaning of home.â??-- Sunday Times â??An extraordinary epic tale of a lone manâ??s journey into the heart of the American frontierâ?¦ Ultimately it is not his quest to be reunited with his brother that impels the novel: it is a good old-fashioned yearning of the human spirit, and a beautifully commodious meditation on its absolute unknowability.â?? -- Financial Times â??Exquisite: assured, moving and masterful, as profound and precise an evocation of loneliness as any book Iâ??ve ever read.â?? -- Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies Umfang: 302 S. ISBN: 978-1-911547-24-2
Winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Longlisted for the Booker Prize One of Barack Obama's Favourite Books of the Year The Sunday Times Bestseller Trust is a sweeping puzzle of a novel about power, greed, love and a search for the truth that begins in 1920s New York. Can one person change the course of history? A Wall Street tycoon takes a young woman as his wife. Together, they rise to the top in an age of excess and speculation. Now a novelist is threatening to reveal the secrets behind their marriage. Who will have the final word in their story of greed, love and betrayal? Composed of four competing versions of this deceptive tale, Trust by Hernan Diaz brings us on a quest for truth while confronting the lies that often live buried in the human heart. **Soon to be an HBO Limited Series starring Kate Winslet** 'I've never read anything quite like this' - Natalie Portman 'One of the great puzzle-box novels . . . a page-turner' - The Telegraph 'Metafiction at its best, unpredictable, clever and massively enjoyable' - The Sunday Times
Inhalt: Unterwegs von Schweden nach New York 1849 verliert der 15-jährige Håkan seinen älteren Bruder Linus und landet zudem allein in San Francisco. Zu Fuß macht er sich auf den Weg nach Osten, doch die Suche nach seinem Bruder mündet in eine lebenslange qualvolle Odyssee, die ihn an kein Ziel führt. Systematik: $L Umfang: 302 Seiten Standort: $L Diaz ISBN: 978-3-446-26781-7
Inhalt: "Treue" führt in die Finanzwelt in Manhattan der 1920er-Jahre. Benjamin Rask hat ein extrem gutes Händchen an der Börse und vermehrt den Reichtum seines Vaters ins Unermessliche. Schlagworte:Druckfrisch Systematik: $L Umfang: 411 Seiten Standort: $L Diaz ISBN: 978-3-446-27375-7
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